I screamed in woe when I saw your subject line. I must have been reading her works for nearly fifty years. She shaped much of my thinking about the world, and I thought of her as my spiritual mother. Along with The Dispossessed and the Earthsea series, Always Coming Home had the greatest effect on me.
One year, on or a little after the Spring Equinox, I sent her as a gift a poem I had written. In the letter, I wrote "Wherever they are, the people of the Na Valley are dancing the World tonight."
In Three Syllables
Little Bear Woman, Given All Gifts, they are both with us, hiding their names in three syllables.
Left arm & right arm, what's at the hinge? The Hole in the Air, become a well.
I calligraphed the letter and poem. The ampersand was a modified heyiya-if. She replied with a postcard that I still have: "It is good to be understood."
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Date: 2018-01-24 02:00 am (UTC)One year, on or a little after the Spring Equinox, I sent her as a gift a poem I had written. In the letter, I wrote "Wherever they are, the people of the Na Valley are dancing the World tonight."
I calligraphed the letter and poem. The ampersand was a modified heyiya-if.
She replied with a postcard that I still have: "It is good to be understood."
(Both your links go to the Locus obituary. I would swear that a few minutes ago one went to the Times one.)